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“(Keep Feeling) Fascination” by The Human League
From the EP Fascination! (1983)
“(Keep Feeling) Fascination” by The Human League appears on 9 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1983 and 2023. It was first released in 1983 on the EP Fascination!. Its best result is #100 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #175 alternative song of 1983 and #3,055 alternative song of all time.
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"(Keep Feeling) Fascination" arrived in 1983 on the Human League's Fascination! EP, and it's the synth crew at their bounciest, a song Jo Callis and Philip Oakey wrote together and Martin Rushent produced alongside the band. Oakey leads, but he passes the microphone around: Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall take their turns, and Callis, the keyboard and guitar man, steps up for a rare vocal of his own. The effect is a synth-pop game of pass the parcel, bubbly and giddy.
The band's own shorthand filed it under Red, their tag for dance tracks, and it went to number two at home and into the top 10 in the United States. It was also the last track Rushent would produce for them for seven years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 100 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 130 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) | 495 |
| 1995 | 411 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995) | 500 |
| 1998 | 398 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) | 488 |
| 1999 | 567 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2002 | 1790 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1045 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2021 | 357 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s | 909 |
| 2023 | 262 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s | 850 |
Also listed as: Keep Feeling (Fascination); (Keeping Feeling) Fascination; Keep Feeling Fascination.
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